This is an analysis of the poem À M. Lebrun that begins with:

Nymphes de mon pays, déités bocagères,
Donnez un libre essor à vos danses légères,...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXXXXXXaXXbX XXXXXcaaXXXXXXXXXXXXddbbbbXXcXXXXXXXXXXceXXXXXXXXXXXXXXcXXXXfXXXXXXXXX XXXXcaXXXXXXXcfXXX beXXXXXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 12,70,18,8,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 100111100 1011101101 11011010100 100110110100 10110011111 11101110110 111100010110 101101101101 10101111011 110111001 1111011101011 111011111 01011011110 111101011010 111101100110 110111111110 1110011011 11111111101 10110011001 111000110101 1111011111100 101110110110 11110111011 100101110100 011011110 110101011 1010101110 11011110101 1101111110 110010110100 11111011111 110010011011 10110011010 1101101110 1110101101 11110010101 11110110111 10110110101 110100101110 01111110110 11111010011 1001011110 1011010010 1110111100 10111110100 11111011111 1110111101 11000111010 111111110100 11100111100 100111110 01100110110 1110110111 11111001011 1111101110 101111110 10100110110 11011010100 110101110100 10110110110 101001111 111011110111 1011101110 110101110111 111001010111 1111101001 1011110110 1110100011 1010011101100 11111111000 1111110111010 10101111110 111101110 11101010110 1111100101011 111101110 110110100110 1101011101 110001011 10111011 111011101110 011100110110 1111001111101 1101101011 111101111 11011111110 1110011111 101110100101 110111110 111011111010 111011110110 11110100011 10111010110 111011101110 11111101011 101111101 110110011111 110110110010 1011011110 1011010111 111111001011 111011111101110 100111011000 111110100101 1101101010 11110110110 110100110100 110111111110
  • Amount of stanzas: 4
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 1266
  • Average number of words per stanza: 241
  • Amount of lines: 108
  • Average number of symbols per line: 46 (strings are more long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 9
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; d, la, des, l, et, les, de, ta, aux, puis, je are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words dans, lebrun, et, viens are repeated.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines res, e, es, te, s, re are repeated).

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  • summary of À M. Lebrun;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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